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[Narrator] A county in England
where strange lights

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have been reported
for centuries.

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A region in Upstate New York

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that has been the site
of mass UFO sightings.

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And a volcano in Colombia

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where pilots have reported
multiple accounts

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of witnessing unidentified
anomalous phenomena.

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By now, the term "UFO" is
universally understood to mean

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"unidentified flying object."

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It describes
a variety of phenomena,

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from metallic flying disks

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to mysterious orbs of light

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and even craft
the size of football fields.

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And there are places
around the globe

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that seem to have
an unusually high occurrence

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of anomalous sightings.

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These locations
have so much activity,

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they've earned the name
"UFO hot spots."

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[Narrator] San Diego.
July 15, 2019.

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In the middle
of an otherwise peaceful night,

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the USS Omaha Combat
Information Center records

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an astonishing event off the
coast of Southern California.

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An unidentified
oval-shaped craft is witnessed

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performing mysterious maneuvers
in restricted airspace

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around a U.S. Navy destroyer.

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[Nick Pope] It is an amazing

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piece of footage showing
a UFO hovering over the sea...

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[Pope] ...and then apparently
descending into the ocean.

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[Narrator] When the footage
is leaked to the public

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by investigative filmmaker
Jeremy Corbell two years later,

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its authenticity is quickly
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[Corbell] I knew
that it would strike a chord.

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You can see the structure of the
craft being oval or circular.

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You can see that it doesn't have
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or heat trails
or any traditional propulsion.

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What you're seeing
is a technology

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that is so far advanced

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from anything
that we have ever created

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or shown in the theater of war,

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which is where we show
our greatest technologies.

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[Narrator] The strange incident
was more than intriguing

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to UFO researchers

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not only because
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but also because of the area
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[Andrew Collins] Off the coast
of San Diego in California

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is somewhere that UFOs or UAPs

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have been appearing regularly
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[Narrator] Since 1995,

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more than 1,000 UFO sightings
have been reported

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in the San Diego area.

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[Ralph Blumenthal] All
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were not just made-up.

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They can be photographed.

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There's something up there
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that no one understands.

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More and more,
the military is acknowledging

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that it's interested,

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giving credibility to the fact
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[Bill Birnes] When you realize
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is one of the most restricted
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restricted areas in the country,

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UFOs are flying back
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over the base.

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[Narrator] The number of UFO
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may appear quite significant.

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However, it is just one

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of several locations
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where similar incidents are
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Locations that have come
to be known as UFO hot spots.

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A UFO hot spot is
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where sightings of unusual
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There's usually a perceivable
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There's been a long history
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[Collins] UFO hot spots
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not just across a few years

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you know, why are
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more frequently
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[Craig Campobasso] Marfa is
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and it's these strange
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that nobody has ever been able
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that the actual state of Texas
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where people can stop and rest

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and watch the Marfa lights
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[Henry] The Bermuda Triangle

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is also a well-known hot spot
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Wiltshire, England, is another.

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Sedona has become
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And Skinwalker Ranch
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is an outstanding example
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Native Americans have said
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is a place where supernatural
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Seems that a large proportion
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in the modern world
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[Narrator] The perception
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emerged in the aftermath

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of two of the most highly
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in U.S. history,

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which both took place in 1947.

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near Mount Rainier
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pilot Kenneth Arnold
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nine saucer-shaped craft
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at a speed of approximately
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the infamous report
of a UFO crash took place

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in Roswell, New Mexico.

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[Linda Moulton Howe]
The July 8,

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1947, headline

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went around the world.

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In the Roswell Daily Record--

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"Flying saucer crashes
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You start looking
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and what was happening
through 1947 and beyond.

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Our government
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were developing gigantic,
huge storage and files

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and folders and departments

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that were dedicated
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of UFOs and E.T.s on our planet.

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[Narrator] Over
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thousands of additional
UFO sightings

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were reported around the world,

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prompting the U.S. government
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an investigation
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The study was given
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And while the program's official
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a startling trend
appeared in the data.

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[Mike Ricksecker] The renowned
J. Allen Hynek

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of Project Blue Book fame wrote

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there's a statistical analysis

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that showed when and where
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such as UFO sightings,

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lights in the sky,
anomalous activity

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in the American Southwest,
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the Mississippi Valley.

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And UFO researchers
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and began to flock to those
areas to conduct their research.

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Researchers in the '50s
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they went back through the data,

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and sometimes literally
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and "X" marks the spot.

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wait a minute,
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these strange hot spots.

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these events
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for no apparent reason.

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[Birnes] What researchers
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was that 60% to 70%
of UFO sightings in America

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turn up in the same spots
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that there was something
about those spots

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that was drawing UFO.

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[Ricksecker] If we're trying
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you want to go to a location
that has the most clues.

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And these are the locations
that could have the clues

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to connect our ancient past
to our modern reality

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and perhaps give us
the answers we're seeking.

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Stretching almost 2,500 miles

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across
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is a mysterious region
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cattle mutilations,
and alien abductions.

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In fact, these events
are reported with such frequency

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that this hot spot
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as the UFO Superhighway.

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[Narrator] Trinidad, Colorado.

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August 22, 2011.

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At 11:46 p.m.,

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this small town is rocked
by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake,

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the most powerful to hit
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an even more violent
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strikes the area
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are 1,400 miles apart
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they both occur
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the 37th parallel.

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This detail captures
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of former sheriff's deputy and
UFO researcher Chuck Zukowski

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and sparks a revelation

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regarding his research into
unidentified aerial phenomena

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and mysterious
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[Daniel Zetterstrom] The fact
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lays along the 37th parallel
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to look at trends
and patterns in the data

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that he'd been collecting
over various investigations.

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Chuck found that sightings
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such as cattle mutilations,
various other things

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all lined up along this one line

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that we refer to
as the 37th latitude.

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[Ryan Sprague] Chuck Zukowski
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had been taking down reports of
all types of paranormal activity

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that were happening
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and all the way
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And Chuck actually has a sister
who is also a UFO researcher.

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and they started to look
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of where all these different UFO

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and paranormal activity
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[Narrator] Zukowski's sister,
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is the director
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or the Mutual UFO Network.

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Over the years,

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the two have amassed data
on thousands of UFO sightings.

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my brother Chuck called me
one evening and we started

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pinpointing the different
locations on a map.

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especially starting
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expanding farther out.

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We noticed activity in Colorado.

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was near the 37th parallel.

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this is way bigger
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[Narrator] Like all lines
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the 37th parallel
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So Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer
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that nearly every case
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happened either on
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Chuck Zukowski is a highly
respected UFO investigator,

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uh, with a lot of "boots
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as is his sister Debbie.

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the idea that you could draw
a straight line

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linking all these different
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cattle mutilations,
paranormal phenomena.

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Of course, it was
a real attention-getter.

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has become known
as a sort of UFO superhighway.

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[Narrator] Could
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really exist
along the 37th parallel?

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the evidence is
highly compelling,

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because among the events that
Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer cite

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are some of the most significant
UFO reports on record,

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including one
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in which a witness
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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

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At Clinton County
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eyewitnesses report seeing
a circular object in the sky

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that is described
as "a flaming red cone

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trailing a gaseous green mist."

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Alarmed by the sightings,

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the Army instructs a squad
of airborne F-51D Mustangs

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under the command of Captain
Thomas Mantell to investigate.

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Four fighters led by
Captain Mantell were dispatched

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to try to follow
or intercept this object.

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The object was massive.

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It was about 300 feet
in diameter

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and traveling
at about 500 miles per hour.

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[Sprague] When they attempted
to intercept this object,

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it was too fast.

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And it was also climbing
in altitude.

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[Zetterstrom] Everyone except
Mantell stopped ascending

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at a certain point
due to problems with oxygen.

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Mantell pushed his plane,

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climbing higher and higher
towards the object.

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However, radio contact
with Mantell was lost.

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[Narrator] According to reports,

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as Mantell pursued the UFO,

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he lost control of the plane
and crashed into the ground.

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The Mantell incident
is an important one,

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and that is because
it involves a UFO fatality.

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And it was because
of this UFO fatality

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that the Air Force began
Project Blue Book to look into

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these UFO incidents.

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[Narrator] The Mantell incident
occurred over a stretch

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of many miles,
mostly along the 37th parallel.

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With official military
involvement,

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multiple witnesses,
and even a fatality,

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the Mantell incident
is considered

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one of the most compelling
UFO encounters ever recorded.

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The mystery of the 37th parallel

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also includes a UFO incident
that occurred 25 years later

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and lasted for months.

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One of the most
fascinating areas

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along the 37-degree parallel
line is Piedmont, Missouri.

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The sightings
actually started in 1973.

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But the one main sighting
that people began focusing on

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happened on February 21,
to be exact.

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Coach Reggie Bones was at
a basketball game with his team.

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As they were coming back home
at about 8:30 at night,

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they saw strange lights
in the distance.

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And they were
colored lights flashing.

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They saw that the lights weren't
just a single pillar in the sky

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but were distinct
colored lights--

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red, green, amber and white.

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Other residents in the area
also saw the lights.

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[Narrator] The Mantell incident
and the Piedmont sightings

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are just two of hundreds
of UFO encounters

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that Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer
have documented

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along the 37th parallel.

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Also found along this latitude
is Cape Girardeau, Missouri,

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where a UFO crash
was reported as early as 1941.

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And one of the most famous
UFO incidents on record,

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the 1947 Roswell crash,

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occurred just over 100 miles
south of this line.

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[Tsoukalos] It's pretty amazing
to think that two

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of the biggest UFO events
that essentially kicked off

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the modern ufology field,

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Roswell and Cape Girardeau,

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happened to be on
or around the 37th parallel.

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So you have to wonder why.

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Is it some sort
of a supernatural force?

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Or could it be something to do
with extraterrestrials?

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South America is
a veritable treasure trove

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for the ancient astronaut
theory.

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The entire continent is loaded
with megalithic structures

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and mythological traditions

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that point to extraterrestrial
contact in the distant past.

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In addition to this history,

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the nation of Chile
continues to report

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so much anomalous activity

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that it has become famous
as a UFO hot spot.

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[Narrator] Santiago, Chile.

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1990.

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After a 17-year rule,

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Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet steps down...

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...ushering in a period
of reform across the country.

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With a new spirit of government
transparency and social freedom,

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the media,
as well as military personnel,

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begin to openly investigate
Chile's unrivaled UFO phenomena.

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[Hidalgo] Now,
when it came to UFOs,

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this is not something new
in Chile.

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In Chile, we have had sightings
long before Pinochet.

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So, after Pinochet,

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when the democracy comes back,

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the military forces
were making an effort

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to change the public opinion
about them.

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[Narrator] Following
the country's newfound openness

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to UFO sightings,

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control tower personnel
observed a flurry

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of mysterious aerial activity
in Chilean airspace.

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Unidentified objects
were flying dangerously close

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to Chilean aircraft.

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I do believe it's our right to
know exactly what we are seeing,

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what our military is seeing
all over the world.

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[Narrator] Several notorious
near-miss incidents

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elevated Chile's UFO activity

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from harmless curiosity to
an issue of national security.

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As a result, in 1997,

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the Chilean government
instituted

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the Committee on Studies
of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena,

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or CEFAA.

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CEFAA started as a result
of pilot sightings.

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Pilots, navigators,

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radar operators

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were reporting UFOs.

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Some of these objects came
dangerously close to aircraft.

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The Chilean government
decided to act.

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So this is unique.

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It's government, it's military,

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and, importantly, it's the
scientific community as well,

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all working together
with one common aim--

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find out
what these sightings are.

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Who's responsible?
What's going on?

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[speaking Spanish]

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[translated] CEFAA gets reports
from all citizens,

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from the far north
down to Antarctica.

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And these reports
are made via our website.

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In the last 22 years
of investigation,

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we have received
almost 900 reports.

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Our process and our manner
of looking at these phenomena

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has been very rigorous,

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because we owe it
to our community.

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Instead of secrecy
and cover-ups and conspiracies,

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we have an atmosphere
of openness,

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where people
are almost encouraged

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to come forward and report.

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The default position of CEFAA

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after their investigations
is to publish,

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release the case files,

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tell the people
what you've discovered.

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This is astonishing
and refreshing.

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[Narrator] CEFAA insists that
governments around the world

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should take a similar approach
to accelerate our understanding

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of these aerial anomalies
and reveal their true origin.

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[speaking Spanish]

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[translated] To us,
it is important

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that more organizations
or institutions or countries

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get involved in the study
of this phenomenon.

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The phenomenon clearly exists.

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We don't know exactly
if there is only one explanation

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for its origin.

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Without a doubt, however,
when other countries

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or other states
create institutions like ours,

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they contribute to the security
of airspace operations.

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We have more good documented
video evidence out of Chile

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than almost any other nation
I can think of.

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[Narrator] On March 13, 2012,

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the Chilean government
unveiled footage

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of a curious event
caught on camera

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above the prestigious El Bosque
Air Force base in Santiago.

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Crowds were gathered
to celebrate the change

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of Chilean Air Force command
in 2010...

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00:22:20,333 --> 00:22:21,750
[applause]

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...recording fighter jets

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performing acrobatic maneuvers
overhead.

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After investigating the footage,

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CEFAA concluded
that the jets were not alone.

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The El Bosque was one that CEFAA
was very excited about.

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And when they slowed down
the videos,

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you could see these objects
zipping by at incredible speeds.

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[speaking Spanish]

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[translated] This case
acquired notoriety

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once the videos were viewed.

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In these videos,
there was a dark object

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that crossed the lines of flight
of these squadron formations.

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Now, this is where
it gets really intriguing,

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because the official conclusion

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was that this UFO
was traveling at a speed

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of around 4,000 miles an hour.

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The British Isles are home
to legends of powerful wizards,

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magical swords
and flying dragons.

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For ancient astronaut theorists
like me,

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these stories
aren't just fairy tales,

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they're possibly encounters with
extraterrestrial technology.

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And today,
England is still a UFO hot spot,

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00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:42,500
where an enormous amount
of advanced aerial phenomena

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has been documented
by alien investigators.

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[Narrator] Yorkshire, England.

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This historic county

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is the largest
in the United Kingdom.

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Known for medieval abbeys,
Norman castles

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and stunning national parks,

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the vast landscape here
is also rich

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with legends of strange beings,

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bizarre lights in the sky

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and even UFOs.

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Yorkshire is in
Northern England,

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and it's a county that is famous

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for strange events
going back centuries.

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Reports of little people,

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mysterious lights up in the sky,

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people seeing these strange,
werewolf-like figures,

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Bigfoot-type creatures
that come and go.

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It's a very strange place.

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[Graham Phillips] There is
an ancient burial mound

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in Yorkshire

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called Willy Howe.

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And back in the 1200s,

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a man had been
walking home one night...

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...and he saw lights
coming out of this mound.

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And he went into the mound,

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where he saw strange beings.

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Fairy folk, if you like.

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He claimed to have seen these
inside the mound.

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[Lynn Picknett] England
has a very rich tradition

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of fairy folk, um, going back
into the mists of time.

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And it's interesting, though,

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00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:17,750
that the way encounters
with these fairy folk,

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or whatever one might call them,

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the way they're expressed
is very, very similar

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over the years

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to descriptions
of encounters with aliens.

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[Narrator] Reports
of mysterious phenomena

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in Yorkshire are found

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throughout
the historical record,

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from ancient times
right up until the present day.

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In an effort
to better understand

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00:25:41,292 --> 00:25:42,833
what has been happening here,

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private investigator
Paul Sinclair and his team

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began researching

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and surveilling the area
in 2009.

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I originally spent a lot of time

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on the East and North
Yorkshire Wolds,

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because farmers in the area

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00:25:58,542 --> 00:26:00,542
reported seeing
the anomalous lights,

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the structured-type crafts.

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But then, I got speaking
to Coast Guard,

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fishermen, trawlermen,
people walking the coastline,

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and they started
reporting seeing

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strange anomalous lights,
UFOs, all manner of things.

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Going back through the local
archives of the newspapers

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reveals that lots and lots
of unexplained phenomena

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have been seen
and are reported there.

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Not just in recent times,

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not just since
I've been researching it,

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but going back
decades and decades,

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there's a long history of
strange and anomalous phenomena.

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Paul Sinclair has been
researching this area

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00:26:38,625 --> 00:26:40,458
for a very, very long time

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00:26:40,625 --> 00:26:43,625
and come up with
some remarkable video footage

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00:26:43,792 --> 00:26:47,750
of lights in the sky, UFOs

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00:26:47,917 --> 00:26:49,958
and everything else
you could think of.

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[Narrator] Paul and his team
set up cameras

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around the cliff tops
along the North Sea

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to try and document the objects
seen near the coastline.

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During one night in 2020,

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what they captured
was particularly intriguing.

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It were just a typical night
by the team.

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We go up there,
we set up cameras

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and we hope that the phenomena
might present.

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-[Sinclair] There.
-And on this occasion, it did.

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But these lights, very often,
they're a bright amber color.

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Or red, or-or white, and, uh,

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the white ones
that you can see in the film

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00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:27,667
were actually more
of an amber color.

507
00:27:27,875 --> 00:27:30,500
But the lights
present as one light

508
00:27:30,708 --> 00:27:32,167
that doesn't fly from anywhere,

509
00:27:32,333 --> 00:27:34,167
and then it punches
into a multiple

510
00:27:34,333 --> 00:27:35,542
of four, five and six,

511
00:27:35,708 --> 00:27:37,625
switches off.

512
00:27:37,750 --> 00:27:40,750
So, luckily, we managed to film
that little sequence of events

513
00:27:40,917 --> 00:27:42,708
on "Lights Filmed Off Bempton,"

514
00:27:42,875 --> 00:27:44,875
and it's quite exciting
when you do actually see

515
00:27:45,083 --> 00:27:47,500
these unexplained phenomena.

516
00:27:47,625 --> 00:27:49,833
[Narrator] Sinclair and his team

517
00:27:49,958 --> 00:27:53,125
have not only captured
strange lights above the sea

518
00:27:53,292 --> 00:27:56,000
but have also documented
orbs of light

519
00:27:56,208 --> 00:27:59,417
submerged below
the surface of the water.

520
00:28:00,417 --> 00:28:02,042
I was walking along
the cliff tops with my friend

521
00:28:02,208 --> 00:28:04,708
and former police officer
Dave Barnes.

522
00:28:04,875 --> 00:28:08,250
And Dave saw the object
rise out of the water.

523
00:28:08,417 --> 00:28:10,708
Stopped momentarily and told me.

524
00:28:10,875 --> 00:28:13,583
I had the camera in hand,
started filming,

525
00:28:13,750 --> 00:28:15,917
I think,
soon as it started to move.

526
00:28:16,875 --> 00:28:18,958
Now it seems to turn in
and drop into the sea.

527
00:28:25,208 --> 00:28:26,875
[Sinclair] So we've got
an object that's gone

528
00:28:27,042 --> 00:28:29,708
below the surface,
risen from the sea,

529
00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:32,625
traveled six miles
and then gone below the surface.

530
00:28:32,750 --> 00:28:34,542
We have footage of objects

531
00:28:34,708 --> 00:28:36,500
beneath the surface
of the water,

532
00:28:36,708 --> 00:28:39,500
or luminous light
beneath the surface,

533
00:28:39,708 --> 00:28:41,542
and we've no explanation
for that.

534
00:28:41,708 --> 00:28:44,125
We've filmed that
on three occasions.

535
00:28:45,125 --> 00:28:49,542
Paul Sinclair has got,
uh, videos of these UFOs

536
00:28:49,750 --> 00:28:52,958
and lights, you know,
going into the water.

537
00:28:53,083 --> 00:28:54,792
So, that makes you wonder,

538
00:28:54,917 --> 00:28:58,375
is there possibly
some underwater UFO base

539
00:28:58,542 --> 00:29:02,125
in Yorkshire that has been there
for thousands of years?

540
00:29:07,542 --> 00:29:10,667
In the 1980s, a peaceful
community in Upstate New York

541
00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:13,875
was transformed
into a UFO hot spot

542
00:29:14,083 --> 00:29:17,458
when extraordinary
V-shaped objects

543
00:29:17,542 --> 00:29:19,833
were seen flying overhead.

544
00:29:20,042 --> 00:29:24,083
But witnesses didn't just report
the strange craft in the sky,

545
00:29:24,208 --> 00:29:27,750
they were equally concerned
about bizarre sounds

546
00:29:27,917 --> 00:29:31,042
coming from deep underground.

547
00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:36,958
[Narrator] Kent Cliffs,
New York,

548
00:29:37,125 --> 00:29:40,417
New Year's Eve, 1982.

549
00:29:41,458 --> 00:29:44,292
Shortly before midnight
in this small town

550
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:46,167
just north of New York City,

551
00:29:46,375 --> 00:29:49,750
New Year's Eve revelers
are struck by the sight

552
00:29:49,917 --> 00:29:53,333
of an unusual aircraft
in the sky.

553
00:29:53,458 --> 00:29:56,958
The ship appears to be
as large as a commercial jet,

554
00:29:57,167 --> 00:30:01,958
but has a V shape, moves slowly
and makes no sound.

555
00:30:02,125 --> 00:30:06,125
The incident is the first
in a wave of UFO sightings

556
00:30:06,208 --> 00:30:08,042
that would shake
the surrounding area

557
00:30:08,208 --> 00:30:11,000
known as the Hudson Valley.

558
00:30:12,042 --> 00:30:14,417
[Imbrogno] The Hudson Valley
is your classic

559
00:30:14,625 --> 00:30:16,000
hot spot.

560
00:30:16,167 --> 00:30:21,083
Here, UFOs appeared
from 1983 to 1986,

561
00:30:21,208 --> 00:30:24,375
and was witnessed
by thousands of people.

562
00:30:26,208 --> 00:30:28,958
A triangular,
boomerang-shape object,

563
00:30:29,125 --> 00:30:33,667
very well lit, flew very low
over the community,

564
00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:37,917
and it was
photographed, videotaped,

565
00:30:38,042 --> 00:30:41,292
and it was seen from people
from all walks of life

566
00:30:41,375 --> 00:30:44,208
who were sure
they saw something strange

567
00:30:44,333 --> 00:30:46,917
that was not from this planet.

568
00:30:48,042 --> 00:30:51,167
This caused people to pull off
the side of the road

569
00:30:51,333 --> 00:30:53,083
and actually start calling home,

570
00:30:53,208 --> 00:30:56,042
thinking there was
some type of an invasion.

571
00:30:56,167 --> 00:30:58,708
And they were executive--
doctors, uh,

572
00:30:58,875 --> 00:31:02,083
scientists and so on,
meteorologists,

573
00:31:02,250 --> 00:31:03,792
and they all reported something

574
00:31:03,958 --> 00:31:05,167
that they have
never seen before.

575
00:31:05,375 --> 00:31:08,125
[Narrator] Over the span
of three years,

576
00:31:08,333 --> 00:31:11,167
officials received
more than 9,000 reports

577
00:31:11,375 --> 00:31:16,042
from eyewitnesses describing
the same V-shaped craft.

578
00:31:16,250 --> 00:31:18,833
Not only was there a UFO
sighting in Hudson Valley

579
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,375
but it came back
night after night after night.

580
00:31:24,708 --> 00:31:26,042
[Imbrogno] These are people

581
00:31:26,208 --> 00:31:28,167
who would not normally
come forward

582
00:31:28,333 --> 00:31:31,000
to say that they saw a UFO.

583
00:31:41,708 --> 00:31:43,208
[Imbrogno] Yet, what they saw

584
00:31:43,375 --> 00:31:46,042
was so convincing
and so frightening to them,

585
00:31:46,208 --> 00:31:50,750
that they went on record
to report what they saw.

586
00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:52,583
I mean, it's just amazing.

587
00:31:54,208 --> 00:31:55,708
[Narrator] During
the two-year wave

588
00:31:55,875 --> 00:31:57,833
of UFO sightings
in the Hudson Valley,

589
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,208
author Philip Imbrogno
investigated the area

590
00:32:01,375 --> 00:32:04,208
on behalf
of the Center for UFO Studies,

591
00:32:04,375 --> 00:32:06,458
which was founded
by J. Allen Hynek

592
00:32:06,583 --> 00:32:09,333
after his work
with Project Blue Book.

593
00:32:10,292 --> 00:32:12,667
Imbrogno conducted
hundreds of interviews

594
00:32:12,792 --> 00:32:14,500
with residents of the area,

595
00:32:14,708 --> 00:32:18,667
and even witnessed
the V-shaped craft himself.

596
00:32:18,875 --> 00:32:20,292
[Imbrogno] This object,

597
00:32:20,458 --> 00:32:23,792
whatever it was--
the size of a football field--

598
00:32:23,917 --> 00:32:26,292
came over the highways
and hovered

599
00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:31,125
and, at times, projected down
a brilliant beam of white light.

600
00:32:31,333 --> 00:32:32,917
Usually, UFO researchers

601
00:32:33,083 --> 00:32:35,250
don't see the UFO
that they're investigating.

602
00:32:35,417 --> 00:32:38,000
I saw this object three times.

603
00:32:38,875 --> 00:32:41,333
So, it was amazing.

604
00:32:42,625 --> 00:32:45,833
[Narrator] As Imbrogno spent
months crisscrossing the area,

605
00:32:46,042 --> 00:32:48,333
he noticed something curious:

606
00:32:48,542 --> 00:32:51,333
the volume of mysterious reports
during this time

607
00:32:51,542 --> 00:32:54,833
were not only focused
on a strange craft in the sky,

608
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,333
but also on bizarre sounds

609
00:32:57,542 --> 00:33:00,750
coming from somewhere
deep below ground.

610
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:06,833
[Henry] People start to wonder,
"Why are these hot spots

611
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,208
hot spots?"
and one explanation is that

612
00:33:10,417 --> 00:33:13,083
what is actually going on
is underneath the ground.

613
00:33:13,250 --> 00:33:15,917
That these hot spots
are, in fact, entrances

614
00:33:16,083 --> 00:33:19,708
to vast underground caverns
or even secret bases.

615
00:33:20,958 --> 00:33:22,167
[Campobasso]
In the Hudson River there,

616
00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:24,167
especially in the '80s,

617
00:33:24,333 --> 00:33:26,083
I spoke to a few researchers,

618
00:33:26,250 --> 00:33:28,292
and they said that the locals
used to hear things

619
00:33:28,417 --> 00:33:30,083
coming up from underground,

620
00:33:30,250 --> 00:33:32,875
and they weren't really
quite sure what it was,

621
00:33:33,083 --> 00:33:35,833
but they figured
there was a base below ground.

622
00:33:36,042 --> 00:33:40,333
A military/alien base.

623
00:33:41,333 --> 00:33:43,958
[Narrator] Arguably,
the most famous sighting

624
00:33:44,083 --> 00:33:45,875
in the Hudson Valley hot spot

625
00:33:46,042 --> 00:33:48,167
concerned beings
from underground,

626
00:33:48,333 --> 00:33:50,167
as was the case

627
00:33:50,333 --> 00:33:53,083
with best-selling horror
novelist Whitley Strieber,

628
00:33:53,250 --> 00:33:55,000
who wrote about
his own experience

629
00:33:55,208 --> 00:33:57,583
in his book Communion.

630
00:33:58,667 --> 00:34:01,167
[Strieber] My wife and I
had bought a cabin

631
00:34:01,375 --> 00:34:04,750
in the western extreme edge
of the whole Hudson Valley.

632
00:34:05,917 --> 00:34:08,375
And in December of 1985,

633
00:34:08,542 --> 00:34:12,583
I woke up in a room,
not my bedroom,

634
00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:14,333
in the middle of the night,

635
00:34:14,542 --> 00:34:17,542
and the room was filled with
two kinds of figures, these...

636
00:34:17,750 --> 00:34:20,042
willowy figures
with big black eyes,

637
00:34:20,208 --> 00:34:23,625
and dark blue short figures.

638
00:34:25,125 --> 00:34:27,250
Then I began
to hear a voice say,

639
00:34:27,417 --> 00:34:29,667
"What can we do to help you
stop screaming?"

640
00:34:29,833 --> 00:34:32,333
And I thought, "I'm screaming?"
and I was screaming.

641
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,042
And the next morning, I woke up

642
00:34:39,208 --> 00:34:41,333
extremely confused
and disturbed,

643
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:44,667
without any real understanding
of what happened to me.

644
00:34:44,833 --> 00:34:46,500
[Narrator] While many presume

645
00:34:46,625 --> 00:34:50,458
that Streiber's alien abductors
descended from the skies,

646
00:34:50,542 --> 00:34:55,042
in fact, he described them
as coming up from below,

647
00:34:55,208 --> 00:34:57,333
and their presence
was marked by sounds

648
00:34:57,500 --> 00:34:59,750
deep beneath his mountain cabin.

649
00:35:01,750 --> 00:35:03,000
[Strieber] We used to hear

650
00:35:03,208 --> 00:35:05,208
drilling in-- underground.

651
00:35:05,375 --> 00:35:07,750
[distant pulsing, drilling]

652
00:35:07,917 --> 00:35:11,417
And we could hear this
taking place under the cabin.

653
00:35:13,583 --> 00:35:15,167
[Narrator] The idea
that hot spots

654
00:35:15,333 --> 00:35:17,000
mark entrances to the underworld

655
00:35:17,125 --> 00:35:20,417
is a phenomenon
seen across the planet.

656
00:35:20,583 --> 00:35:21,875
[Childress] This can be
what's happening

657
00:35:22,042 --> 00:35:23,667
in, say, Lake Titicaca.

658
00:35:23,833 --> 00:35:26,833
And then you have other places
like, say, Mount Shasta,

659
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,375
or certain volcanoes in Mexico,

660
00:35:30,542 --> 00:35:33,708
where UFOs are seen
and there's a lot of activity.

661
00:35:40,542 --> 00:35:42,042
When you think
about UFO hot spots,

662
00:35:42,042 --> 00:35:44,000
you might picture
mysterious orbs

663
00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:45,542
above a thick forest

664
00:35:45,750 --> 00:35:48,833
or along a deserted stretch
of highway,

665
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,333
but for the people
of the South American country

666
00:35:51,542 --> 00:35:54,708
of Colombia,
strange craft in the sky

667
00:35:54,875 --> 00:35:58,958
can be seen
in a very unlikely place.

668
00:36:01,375 --> 00:36:06,167
[Narrator] Colombia,
January 28, 2020.

669
00:36:06,375 --> 00:36:10,750
An Airbus A320
is cruising at 30,000 feet

670
00:36:10,917 --> 00:36:15,208
on a routine flight
en route to Bogotá.

671
00:36:15,375 --> 00:36:17,417
As it approaches
a prominent volcano

672
00:36:17,583 --> 00:36:19,750
called Nevado del Tolima,

673
00:36:19,958 --> 00:36:24,292
the pilot notices
something strange in the clouds.

674
00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:27,833
The plane is on autopilot.

675
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,292
When the pilot sees
what's out his cockpit window,

676
00:36:31,458 --> 00:36:32,917
he picks up his phone,

677
00:36:33,083 --> 00:36:36,458
and what he filmed
was extraordinary.

678
00:36:37,667 --> 00:36:41,833
It's an object zipping along
towards his plane.

679
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,917
So the pilot is able to use
the close-up on his camera

680
00:36:46,042 --> 00:36:50,792
and sees that the object
is actually a flying cube

681
00:36:50,917 --> 00:36:54,500
that is coming towards him
and flying right past his plane.

682
00:36:57,542 --> 00:37:01,375
[Narrator] Two years later,
in May 2022,

683
00:37:01,542 --> 00:37:05,875
a private pilot also flying
near the same Tolima volcano

684
00:37:06,042 --> 00:37:10,000
captures footage of a metallic
diamond-shaped object

685
00:37:10,167 --> 00:37:12,375
speeding past his aircraft.

686
00:37:14,292 --> 00:37:15,917
And the next year,

687
00:37:16,042 --> 00:37:18,833
a passenger on board a flight
from Bogotá to Salento

688
00:37:18,958 --> 00:37:24,000
films a metallic, orb-like
object in the same location.

689
00:37:24,208 --> 00:37:28,375
Three incredible UFO videos
in just four years,

690
00:37:28,542 --> 00:37:32,417
all shot near Nevado del Tolima.

691
00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:36,375
These are three
extraordinary videos of UFOs.

692
00:37:36,542 --> 00:37:40,958
In fact, one has been called
the best UFO video of all time.

693
00:37:41,917 --> 00:37:44,375
All three were taken
in broad daylight.

694
00:37:45,417 --> 00:37:47,500
All three show
what could only be described

695
00:37:47,625 --> 00:37:49,417
as a metallic craft.

696
00:37:50,958 --> 00:37:55,042
And all three were filmed
near the Tolima volcano.

697
00:37:56,042 --> 00:37:59,292
You have to ask yourself,
"What is going on here?"

698
00:38:00,875 --> 00:38:03,125
[Narrator] Could these three
remarkable sightings

699
00:38:03,292 --> 00:38:05,208
around the Tolima volcano

700
00:38:05,375 --> 00:38:09,125
be evidence
of extraterrestrial activity?

701
00:38:09,333 --> 00:38:13,750
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest clues may be found

702
00:38:13,917 --> 00:38:17,833
by examining the volcano's
mysterious history.

703
00:38:19,542 --> 00:38:23,000
[Pamela Smith] The Tolima
people of Colombia hold

704
00:38:23,208 --> 00:38:27,292
their volcanic mountain
of the same name

705
00:38:27,375 --> 00:38:28,917
in great reverence

706
00:38:29,083 --> 00:38:31,583
because, in their telling,

707
00:38:31,792 --> 00:38:34,792
it is the place
where the life of Earth meets

708
00:38:34,958 --> 00:38:38,833
the sky deities,
the life of the above land.

709
00:38:38,958 --> 00:38:41,042
The legends tell us
that this was a place

710
00:38:41,208 --> 00:38:44,000
where humankind
could meet and mingle

711
00:38:44,167 --> 00:38:45,500
with the so-called gods.

712
00:38:45,708 --> 00:38:48,583
And what's interesting to me
is that

713
00:38:48,750 --> 00:38:53,042
very curious ancient artifacts
were found at Tolima.

714
00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:57,333
[Narrator]
In the late 19th century,

715
00:38:57,542 --> 00:39:00,833
tomb robbers exploring
the base of Nevado del Tolima

716
00:39:00,958 --> 00:39:06,583
stumbled upon a gravesite
that dated back 1,500 years.

717
00:39:07,625 --> 00:39:10,667
Among the funerary objects
found there were hundreds

718
00:39:10,875 --> 00:39:15,125
of small two-to-three-inch-long
gold figurines.

719
00:39:16,333 --> 00:39:17,792
[Tsoukalos]
According to archaeologists,

720
00:39:17,917 --> 00:39:20,583
in the ancient culture
of the Tolima,

721
00:39:20,792 --> 00:39:25,208
they specialized in creating
thousands of little gold objects

722
00:39:25,375 --> 00:39:26,667
that they would put in the tombs

723
00:39:26,833 --> 00:39:28,083
of the deceased,

724
00:39:28,208 --> 00:39:29,833
essentially,
to pay off the journey

725
00:39:30,042 --> 00:39:32,625
from the land of the living
to the land of the dead.

726
00:39:33,667 --> 00:39:38,917
They were all in the shape
of fish, birds, frogs,

727
00:39:39,083 --> 00:39:41,000
anything you can imagine.

728
00:39:41,208 --> 00:39:43,667
But 17 look like
modern-day planes.

729
00:39:44,708 --> 00:39:47,167
We can clearly see
that the wings are attached

730
00:39:47,333 --> 00:39:49,292
at the bottom of the fuselage,

731
00:39:49,417 --> 00:39:53,875
and in the back of the fuselage,
you actually have stabilizers.

732
00:39:54,042 --> 00:39:57,417
This is not anything
that exists in nature.

733
00:39:59,250 --> 00:40:01,792
[Narrator] Could it be that
the ancient gold artifacts

734
00:40:01,917 --> 00:40:04,750
found at the base
of Nevado del Tolima

735
00:40:04,917 --> 00:40:08,917
are really depictions
of flying vehicles?

736
00:40:09,875 --> 00:40:12,333
[Childress] The idea that people
could actually envision

737
00:40:12,542 --> 00:40:15,083
modern airplanes at that time,

738
00:40:15,292 --> 00:40:16,833
just as a-a speculation,

739
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,167
seems pretty, uh,
fantastic, really.

740
00:40:21,208 --> 00:40:23,208
And you would think
that they are really making

741
00:40:23,375 --> 00:40:25,333
these gold airplanes

742
00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:28,167
after something
they had genuinely seen.

743
00:40:28,333 --> 00:40:30,917
[Tsoukalos] The ancient
astronaut theory suggests

744
00:40:31,083 --> 00:40:33,667
the reason why they were
commemorating these things

745
00:40:33,875 --> 00:40:36,167
is because they witnessed craft

746
00:40:36,292 --> 00:40:39,833
flying in and flying out
of these volcanoes.

747
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,333
And you have to wonder
if maybe our ancestors

748
00:40:42,542 --> 00:40:45,125
were seeing the same things
we're seeing today.

749
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,750
For many of us,

750
00:40:49,875 --> 00:40:52,917
the possibility
of actually seeing a UFO

751
00:40:53,083 --> 00:40:56,917
is a thrilling,
once-in-a-lifetime event,

752
00:40:57,083 --> 00:40:59,833
so it's really exciting to think
that there are places

753
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,208
around the world
where people frequently witness

754
00:41:03,375 --> 00:41:06,000
unidentified
anomalous phenomena.

755
00:41:07,042 --> 00:41:11,042
From vast stretches of land
like the 37th parallel

756
00:41:11,208 --> 00:41:14,833
and mysterious orbs
over Great Britain

757
00:41:15,042 --> 00:41:18,417
to military encounters
and civilian sightings,

758
00:41:18,583 --> 00:41:20,833
perhaps one day,

759
00:41:21,042 --> 00:41:23,875
we will solve the mystery
of just who

760
00:41:24,042 --> 00:41:26,958
or what is appearing

761
00:41:27,125 --> 00:41:29,792
at these UFO hot spots.

762
00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:32,917
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